Who is Cannes runner-up winner Jonathan Glazer?
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CANNES: Jonathan Glazer, who gained the runner-up prize at this 12 months’s Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for his Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest”, has made solely a handful of flicks in 20 years.
But each one has been distinctive, drawing extraordinarily memorable performances from stars equal to Nicole Kidman, Ben Kingsley and, in his latest attribute, Sandra Hueller.
The Cannes-winning film comes a decade on from the enigmatic British director’s remaining film, “Under the Skin”, the ultra-bizarre alien flick starring Scarlett Johansson.
Christian Friedel, from left, director Jonathan Glazer, and Sandra Huller pose on the image identify for ‘The Zone of Interest’ on the 76th worldwide film pageant, Cannes, southern France, May 20, 2023. (AP)
Here’s a quick summary of the particular person and his work:
Ads and music motion pictures
London-born Glazer, 58, began inside the theatre sooner than shifting into adverts and music motion pictures.
He made memorable ads for Guinness, Stella Artois and Levi’s inside the Nineteen Nineties and a number of other different motion pictures for Radiohead, along with Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” which gained the MTV video of the 12 months award in 1997.
‘Sexy Beast’ (2000)
Glazer triggered a sensation collectively along with his first film starring Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley, putting a bravura spin on the drained British gangster type with the kind of searing pictures that characterised his ads and music motion pictures.
It gave the world one in every of most unforgettably insane characters ever devoted to celluloid in Kingsley’s motor-mouthed psycho Don Logan — as distant as a result of it is doable to be from his best-known operate as Gandhi — incomes the actor an Oscar nomination.
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‘Birth’ (2004)
Radically switching genres, Glazer turned subsequent to this eerie New York story just a few widow (Nicole Kidman) confronted by a 10-year-old who claims to be her reincarnated ineffective husband.
The film confounded and scandalised critics on the time and was booed at its Venice Film Festival premiere, with many disturbed by the sexual overtones of the central relationship, nonetheless its reputation has grown over time and earned comparisons with legendary director Stanley Kubrick.
‘Under the Skin’ (2013)
Glazer’s mysterious sci-fi set in a distant coastal Scottish metropolis drew a stand-out effectivity from Scarlett Johansson, collaborating in an alien in human type who roams the seashores and streets, selecting up random males and luring them to an abandoned residence.
Mixing extraordinarily stylised abstract scenes with gritty Glasgow realism, Glazer’s film was every baffling and mesmerising, nonetheless this time the critics have been gained over, with the film topping quite a lot of film-of-the-year lists.
‘The Zone of Interest’ (2023)
After a decade throughout which he solely made just a few fast motion pictures, Glazer has returned with one different distinctive offering — attempting on the disturbing extraordinary private lifetime of a Nazi officer on the Auschwitz focus camp.
It not at all reveals the horrors of the camp instantly, nonetheless the viewers is conscious of full successfully what the background noises — trains, incinerators, gunshots and screams — signify.
On Saturday the jury at Cannes awarded the film the Grand Prix after critics had been near-unanimous of their reward following the premiere on the pageant.
CANNES: Jonathan Glazer, who gained the runner-up prize at this 12 months’s Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for his Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest”, has made solely a handful of flicks in 20 years.
But each one has been distinctive, drawing extraordinarily memorable performances from stars equal to Nicole Kidman, Ben Kingsley and, in his latest attribute, Sandra Hueller.
The Cannes-winning film comes a decade on from the enigmatic British director’s remaining film, “Under the Skin”, the ultra-bizarre alien flick starring Scarlett Johansson.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Christian Friedel, from left, director Jonathan Glazer, and Sandra Huller pose on the image identify for ‘The Zone of Interest’ on the 76th worldwide film pageant, Cannes, southern France, May 20, 2023. (AP)
Here’s a quick summary of the particular person and his work:
Ads and music motion pictures
London-born Glazer, 58, began inside the theatre sooner than shifting into adverts and music motion pictures.
He made memorable ads for Guinness, Stella Artois and Levi’s inside the Nineteen Nineties and a number of other different motion pictures for Radiohead, along with Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” which gained the MTV video of the 12 months award in 1997.
‘Sexy Beast’ (2000)
Glazer triggered a sensation collectively along with his first film starring Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley, putting a bravura spin on the drained British gangster type with the kind of searing pictures that characterised his ads and music motion pictures.
It gave the world one in every of most unforgettably insane characters ever devoted to celluloid in Kingsley’s motor-mouthed psycho Don Logan — as distant as a result of it is doable to be from his best-known operate as Gandhi — incomes the actor an Oscar nomination.
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‘Birth’ (2004)
Radically switching genres, Glazer turned subsequent to this eerie New York story just a few widow (Nicole Kidman) confronted by a 10-year-old who claims to be her reincarnated ineffective husband.
The film confounded and scandalised critics on the time and was booed at its Venice Film Festival premiere, with many disturbed by the sexual overtones of the central relationship, nonetheless its reputation has grown over time and earned comparisons with legendary director Stanley Kubrick.
‘Under the Skin’ (2013)
Glazer’s mysterious sci-fi set in a distant coastal Scottish metropolis drew a stand-out effectivity from Scarlett Johansson, collaborating in an alien in human type who roams the seashores and streets, selecting up random males and luring them to an abandoned residence.
Mixing extraordinarily stylised abstract scenes with gritty Glasgow realism, Glazer’s film was every baffling and mesmerising, nonetheless this time the critics have been gained over, with the film topping quite a lot of film-of-the-year lists.
‘The Zone of Interest’ (2023)
After a decade throughout which he solely made just a few fast motion pictures, Glazer has returned with one different distinctive offering — attempting on the disturbing extraordinary private lifetime of a Nazi officer on the Auschwitz focus camp.
It not at all reveals the horrors of the camp instantly, nonetheless the viewers is conscious of full successfully what the background noises — trains, incinerators, gunshots and screams — signify.
On Saturday the jury at Cannes awarded the film the Grand Prix after critics had been near-unanimous of their reward following the premiere on the pageant.
